Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Love, Water, Memory by JENNIFER SHORTRIDGE

"...there were many in Western Washington. She knew this, she did. Salish, Duwamish, Suquamish. She knew these names, but not why she knew them. She was clearly white, whiter than white with her freckles and the bluish tinge beneath her eyes.
Slowly he opened up. He told her about....."

Salish 1: a group of American Indian peoples of British Columbia and the
northwestern United States . 2: the family of languages spoken by the Salish ...Dictionary.com

Duwamish

The Duwamish
are a Lushootseed Native American tribe in western Washington, and the
indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle, where they have been living
since the ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duwamish_(tribe)

Suquamish
The Suquamish are a southern Coast Salish people; they spoke a dialect of Lushootseed, which belongs to the Salishan language family. Like many Northwest Coast natives, the Suquamish relied on fishing from local rivers and Puget Sound for food. They built plank longhouses to protect themselves from the wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains.

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